August 14 zodiac sign
With roughly 21° of Leo behind it on August 14, the Sun stands in the Mars decan, where warmth turns active and affection is expressed through doing rather than saying.
Sun signLeo
- Sun at 20°–23° Leo
- 3rd decan · Mars
August 14 in profile
Seasoned Leo has learned that loyalty is shown in action. The Aries sub-sign brings Mars into the third decan, adding drive and directness to Leo’s generous heart. An August 14 Leo tends to move toward trouble rather than away from it, especially when someone they love is involved. These late degrees also carry a hint of the coming Virgo season: a growing interest in getting things done properly as well as grandly.
Help arrives in boots. They turn up with a toolbox when a friend moves house and organise the meal rota when someone is ill. Generosity is quick and physical, sometimes before the other person has finished explaining the problem. They can bristle if help is refused, reading it as a rejection. Learning to ask what is actually wanted makes their kindness land better.
Attraction is direct. They make the first move, say what they feel, and expect the same courage back. Mars likes a chase, and Leo likes to be adored, so the early stage of a romance is all energy and grand plans. Long-term, they stay through difficulty with fixed-sign tenacity. The growth edge is softness: showing need as well as strength lets a partner care for them too.
Leo all day
In every year from 1930 to 2040 the Sun was in Leo for the whole of August 14, in every time zone. This is not a cusp birthday: the nearest changes of sign fall around July 23 and August 22.
Your Moon sign depends on the year
The Sun is in the same place on August 14 every year; the Moon is not. It changes sign every two and a half days, so people who share this birthday can have any of the twelve Moon signs. Here is where it was on August 14 in recent years, from 00:00 to 23:59 UTC (an arrow means it changed sign during the day).
- 2017Taurus
- 2018Virgo → Libra
- 2019Aquarius
- 2020Gemini → Cancer
- 2021Libra → Scorpio
- 2022Pisces → Aries
- 2023Cancer → Leo
- 2024Sagittarius
- 2025Aries → Taurus
- 2026Virgo
Compatible signs for a Leo
Sun-sign compatibility starts from the element. Leo gets on most easily with its own element and with the two sextile signs, and feels the strongest pull from its opposite. For an August 14 birthday, in the Aries decan, Aries is a natural match. The full charts decide how a real pairing feels.
A gift for an August 14 birthday
A shared adventure for two, such as a cooking class with a competitive edge or a sunrise hike, planned so they can lead the way.
Asked about August 14
What zodiac sign is August 14?
August 14 is Leo in every year: the Sun is at about 20°–23° Leo that day, in the sign’s 3rd decan.
Is August 14 a cusp birthday?
No. The Sun is well inside Leo on August 14. The cusp days, when the Sun changes sign, fall around July 23 and August 22. Astrology has no blended cusp signs anyway: at any moment the Sun is in one sign.
What decan is August 14?
August 14 falls in the 3rd decan of Leo. In the triplicity system we use, that decan belongs to Aries and its ruler Mars, which colours the Leo Sun with a little of Aries.
Your birthday is only the Sun
An August 14 birthday tells you where the Sun was. The Moon, the Rising sign and eight more planets each sit somewhere of their own, and they depend on the year, the hour and the place. The free calculator shows all of them.